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Hurrah for that objective collapse!

Schrödinger's cat is a visceral metaphor that helps some to engage with quantum physics and stimulates debate. But it's not a fair representation of the Copenhagen interpretation.

I believe it represents a “straw man” argument, reflecting the intuitive dislike that Erwin Schrödinger and Albert Einstein had of certain elements of quantum mechanics. The box is full of “observation” that causes any superposition to decohere: the cat is observing the system throughout. If it is alive, the decay can't have taken place. How anthropocentric – or mystical – is it to assume that only human observation has a quantum-weirdness-killing quality?